Public contract award · TED 74593-2026
- 2 suppliers share it
Invitation to tender for the provision a Molecular multiplex Blood Culture Assay for use with a FilmArray Torch System and a COBAS Eplex System for the automated detection of pathogens and antibioti
St James's Hospital awarded this contract to Biomerieux UK Limited and Roche Diagnostics Limited on 2 February 2026, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €178,100. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 60 months, to Feb 2031.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedBiomerieux UK LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedRoche Diagnostics LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 46% of contract awards, and number 66 of 78 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
How long does it run?
A published term of 5 years, to Feb 2031.
The term is the notice’s duration counted from the award date. A contract may be extended or end early; the notices do not say.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Laboratory reagents
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 7156368eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
- TED notice
- 74593-2026 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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- TED contract award notice 74593-2026 (opens in a new tab)
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 7156368. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Invitation to tender for the provision a Molecular multiplex Blood Culture Assay for use with a FilmArray Torch System and a COBAS Eplex System for the automated detection of pathogens and antibioti", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 74593-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-74593-2026/invitation-to-tender-for-the-provision-a-molecular. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
Published records, not allegations. An award shows who a public body chose to buy from, as it published; it is not a payment and says nothing about how the supplier was chosen beyond what the notice states.